Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.